Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Damrosch, Leo
Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Damrosch, Leo

Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

From a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson's life, a story as romantic...
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Author: Leo Damrosch
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Damrosch, Leo

Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

$53.16
Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson by Damrosch, Leo

Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

$53.16
Author: Leo Damrosch
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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From a critically acclaimed biographer, an engrossing narrative of Robert Louis Stevenson's life, a story as romantic and adventurous as his fiction

"Damrosch brings to Stevenson's life the calm, humane interpretive powers that he deployed with such success in . . . The Club. . . . [An] excellent book."--Meghan Cox Gurdon, Wall Street Journal

"This magnificent biography of Robert Louis Stevenson reveals much about a writer that we think we knew. . . . Dazzling."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is famed for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but he published many other novels and stories before his death at forty-four. Despite lifelong ill health, he had immense vitality; Mark Twain said his eyes burned with "smoldering rich fire." Born in Edinburgh to a family of lighthouse engineers, Stevenson set many stories in Scotland but sought travel and adventure in a life as romantic as his novels. "I loved a ship," he wrote, "as a man loves burgundy or daybreak." The adventures were shared with his free-spirited American wife, Fanny, with whom he moved to the South Pacific.

Samoan friends named Stevenson "Storyteller." Reading, he said, "should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves." His own books have been translated into dozens of languages. Jorge Luis Borges called his stories "one of the forms of happiness," and other modernist masters as various as Proust, Nabokov, and Calvino have paid tribute to his greatness as a literary artist.

In Storyteller, Leo Damrosch brings to life an unforgettable personality, illuminated by many who knew Stevenson well and drawing from thousands of the writer's letters in his many voices and moods--playful, imaginative, at times tragic.

Author: Leo Damrosch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 584
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.16lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.59w x 1.64d
ISBN: 9780300268621


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2025
Publishers Weekly 07/21/2025

About the Author
Leo Damrosch is the Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus at Harvard University. His many books include Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (National Book Award finalist); Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova; The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age; and Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (National Book Critics Circle Award winner, Pulitzer Prize finalist). He lives in Newton, MA.
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